The team has announced that, as expected, Scott Linehan has been hired both to serve as passing coordinator and to call the offensive plays in 2014.

As not expected, the team has announced that Rod Marinelli will become the defensive coordinator, with Monte Kiffin promoted/shifted/whatever to the position of assistant head coach/defense.

“Our responsibility is to bring quality people into our organization and find the best fit for them. That applies to players, and it applies to coaches,” coach Jason Garrett said. “Rod Marinelli’s production in terms of creating turnovers and changing field position as a defensive coordinator is well documented. Monte Kiffin’s overall knowledge and understanding of this defensive scheme will be put to use in mentoring all of the players and coaches on the defensive side of the ball. Monte was brought here to direct a transition in philosophy to the 4-3 scheme, and he will continue to oversee the development of our defense in this scheme.”

Garrett also addressed the addition of Linehan and the stripping of the play-calling duties from Callahan.

“The opportunity to add someone of Scott Linehan’s expertise and experience will benefit our offensive unit, and we believe the combination of him and Bill Callahan working closely together will give us a great chance to build upon the strides we made offensively last year,” Garrett said.

Linehan’s arrival apparently won’t mean the departure of offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Bill Callahan. Per Ed Werder of ESPN, the Cowboys are keeping Callahan because he’d become the interim head coach, if Garrett is fired during the 2014 season.

Come on Jerry Jones time to give it up you aren’t up to speed with how the NFL works nowadays, hire a GM let him make all the football decisions because its completely obvious that you have failed at it. Continue doing what you are doing and you will continue to be a laughingstock of the NFL and be a sub par team yr in and yr out

My owner gets a bad rap when compared to Jerry Jones… He gives no authority to his leaders. They are puppets tied to the puppeteer’s strings… As Dan Snyder I believe has learned… Organization & structure must come from the top down. You cannot have your GM undermine the head coach’s authority by not allowing him to manage his staff. Sure at the end of the season, if changes are necessary, private conversations should lead to the head coach making a change. It has been proven over & over that players don’t perform to the highest of their ability if their coach has no authority. Jason Garrett is a door mat.

As the World Turns is alive and well in the world created by Jerry Jones. Jerry, you have won nothing since Jimmy left. Barry’s Superbowl win does not count for you, because that was won with Jimmy’s boys. Your team, organization, has been wallowing in mediocrity for years. Short of selling the team, nothing will improve the Cowboys until you get a clue that you are terrible at managing a football organization.

Why not just fire Kiffin then? I actually like this move to give Marinelli the D-coordinator job, simply due to the job he did with the D-line last season, but Kiffin is an absolutely useless part of the coaching staff at this point.

It’s cute how they let little Jason talk to the media as if he had any say in this situation to begin with. The only constant with the dreadful Cowboys franchise over the past 20 years has been Jerry himself. When will his ego shrink to the extent that it allows him see that he may, in fact, be the problem?…Unfortunately, I am not sure it will ever happen.

The Dallas Cowboys are the most profitable team in the NFL despite 18 years of frustrating blind faith. Jerry IS the NFL’s best paid / compensated GM in the NFL despite 18 yrs. of total incompetence. Jerry IS the face of the Dallas Cowboys and constantly finds ways to step in front of a camera and microphone… and orgasmic event for JJ. Why then, would he want to make changes?

I am not a fan of Dallas cowboys so I checked on the official site on how any points cowboys averaged last season. It was 27.5 per game, 5th best in the league. That is pretty good. If they are trying for 1 or 2 ranking then they need Payton Manning, Tom Brady or Rogers as a QB.
There defense was bad , the opponents converted more 3rd downs and had more rushing yards than the offense.
I think jones doesn’t want to look bad that’s why he is keeping kiffin and Callahan but both should go. There will be too much office politics which will cause distraction. Every one will be focusing on saving their job instead of greater good of the team .

The Cowboys can play musical coaches and coordinators all they want. The fact is, they are not going to get any farther until two things happen. First, Jerry Jones needs to swallow some of his ego and hire a general manager. Second, they need to look beyond Romo who has taken them as far as his skills will allow.

Jurrah’s got a contingency plan in place to replace the replacements. Splendid! This will come in handy when they crash into each other’s backs on the sideline during game time when they’re each shouting their favorite play/defense to be run.

This could quickly elevate to the level of Pops Ryan and Kevin Gilbride on the sideline. The NFL hasn’t seen that kind of entertainment in years.

The annual JJ grasping at straws to find something that will work. It won’t JJ. The only thing that will work is you hiring a GM and letting them run the team without you in the mix. THAT will work. Until then you will have losing seasons, or 500, at best.

I hate to say this but I feel bad for just about everyone on that coaching staff except Kiffin and Linehan.

Garrett might as well step back, get a lawn chair and watch the reality show going on in front of him.

He has no real power and only get’s trotted out to handle media duties. Callahan surely would rather be OC somewhere else because he’s not allowed to coordinate here and is also left twisting in the wind just so jerry can have an interim head coach who doesn’t want to be there?

Jerry just keeps creating new positions for everyone just to avoid admitting he keeps screwing things up.

As a Steeler fan, it is hard to understand the kind of chaotic nonsense some organizations go through, seemingly for no reason.
Dallas is the poster child (even moreso than the RedSkins, in my mind).
You read this, and you say, the key criteria for being Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys is a willingness to BEND OVER.
Wonder if some of the TYPE A Players have noticed?

Jerry Jones is like the little old man who goes out to his workshop to tinker with things so he will have something to do. The guy who starts out with a basic birdhouse but just keeps adding bells and whistles to it trying to make a bird Mansion. That part is okay, the problem is his workshop is a billion dollar arena and his toy he tinkers with is a multi billion dollar sports franchise.

This is a simple matter of definition of the term major. Real world example: when the company I worked for was bought out, we had 10000 employees worldwide and we were told that there would be minor changes but we would barely notice them. Six months later, we were down to 5000 .

Jerry is a genius. Look at the #’s 3 and 5 on most commented on PFT. This is an 8-8 team bascially for the last 12 years and people are drawn to it like a moth to the fire. Whether you like them or you don’t Jerry keeps you interested in this team and he keeps putting tons of money in his pocket.

walla2 … the difference is that Jones has been a bad football guy from the get go. I think, and you tell me what you think, Davis was actually a football genius, but by the end (say 10-12 years or so) the game had passed him by and his capacity to change the game deteriorated … he got too old to do it the “maverick” way.

This story is really funny. If the Cowboys continue under their current General Manager, they will have more coaches than players. Mr. Jones is suffering from chronic head-up-his-azz disease which means the Cowboys will be a .500 team til he retires, expires, or sells out.

Only thing that has not changed in Dallas in the past 10+ years is Jerry and Romo, everything else has changed, and the wins have not happenned now is time for Jerry to get rid of Jerry and well we all know where Romo needs to go. Can we please draft a QB and develop him. Please.

As a former Dallas Cowboy fan I hope they get their act together. I dont even buy Dallas Cowboy merchandise anymore because they are such a joke in the NFL nowadays. I wouldnt be caught dead with a cowboys jersey or hat, let alone dish out a few hundred dollars to go to one of their games.